Economist Who Aided Microsoft
Says Judge Lacks Key Evidence

By

Mark Wigfield Dow Jones Newswires

Updated Feb. 11, 2000 5:27 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- An economist who helped Microsoft Corp. develop its defense against government antitrust charges said the judge in the case has reached some conclusions without the evidence to back them up.

During a sometimes-heated forum sponsored by two think tanks, economist David Evans, a senior vice president with National Economic Research Associates in Cambridge, Mass., leveled most of his criticism at Justice Department lawyers. But he also suggested that U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson didn't have the...